As the world grows smaller and more complex, we create new programs to educate and inspire our students, and we enhance the programs that have historically made us strong. Private support helps all our programs build legal skills for the 21st century.
Our renowned Clinical Law Program provides practice opportunities and course credit at the same time, allowing students to move beyond the classroom to the real-world practice of law, supervised by clinical faculty who are practicing attorneys. We recently added several clinics that deal with leading-edge legal issues: the International Transactions Clinic, the Innocence Clinic, and the Human Trafficking Clinic.
Several programs provide in-depth study and direct engagement with various aspects of human rights law and international public law. Among these is our renowned Program in Refugee and Asylum Law, the world’s most comprehensive curriculum in this field, which brings together students, visiting scholars, and faculty who have a commitment to reconciling international legal principles with the practical challenges posed by involuntary migration in all parts of the world.
The Environmental Law and Policy Program (ELPP) builds on Michigan Law’s rich tradition of scholarship and teaching in this critically important area of the law. Our goal is to build a top-tier environmental program that becomes a destination for students seeking training for this work. Giving opportunities include naming a center, program, or institute; funding a clinic; endowing professorships; creating scholarships; and sponsoring lectures and conferences.
Michigan Law graduates are among the world’s most employable, and we want to continue to prepare our students well for their chosen profession. We seek funding to augment our Legal Practice Program, required of all students, with courses that include advanced work in legal writing and drafting, negotiations and client counseling, ethics and professionalism, teamwork, and group communications.